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"tombstone": "Prunus Vase (Meiping) with Blossoming Lotus (\u743a\u83ef\u84ee\u82b1\u7d0b\u6885\u74f6), late 1400s. China, Jiangxi Province, Jingdezhen kilns, Ming dynasty (1368\u20131644). Porcelain with polychrome glazes, Fahua ware; diameter: 19 cm (7 1/2 in.); overall: 37.5 cm (14 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of John L. Severance, 1942.716",
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"title": "Prunus Vase (Meiping) with Blossoming Lotus",
"title_in_original_language": "\u743a\u83ef\u84ee\u82b1\u7d0b\u6885\u74f6",
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"department": "Chinese Art",
"collection": "China - Ming Dynasty",
"type": "Ceramic",
"measurements": "Diameter: 19 cm (7 1/2 in.); Overall: 37.5 cm (14 3/4 in.)",
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"opening_date": "1942-11-12T04:00:00"
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"title": "Mayling Soong Foundation 25th Anniversary Exhibition",
"description": "Mayling Soong Foundation 25th Anniversary Exhibition. Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley, MA (organizer) (April 16-June 4, 1967).",
"opening_date": "1967-04-16T05:00:00"
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"id": 309887,
"title": "The Twain Shall Meet",
"description": "The Twain Shall Meet. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 30, 1985-January 5, 1986).",
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"title": "Layers of Meaning: China\u2019s Flora and Fauna in Painting and on Porcelain",
"description": "Layers of Meaning: China\u2019s Flora and Fauna in Painting and on Porcelain. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 6, 2020-June 6, 2021).",
"opening_date": "2020-11-06T05:00:00"
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"description": "The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 30-September 5, 1982).",
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"description": "Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (October 12, 1991-January 12, 1992).",
"opening_date": "1991-10-12T00:00:00"
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"description": "John L. Severance [1863-1936], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art",
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"did_you_know": "The shoulders of the vase are decorated with ruyi-shaped clouds.",
"description": "According to 11th-century poet Zhou Dunyi, \u201call people like peonies, but I alone like the lotus because it emerges from the mud unstained.\u201d The lotus is a symbol of purity and popular among Chinese literati and in Buddhism. This vase shows lotus flowers rising from the water\u2019s surface depicted in elegant yet simple ripples.
Made in a kiln at Jingdezhen in southern China, this vase is an example of the fahua technique\u2014decoration with raised outlines produced by squeezing clay from a tube onto the vase\u2019s surface. Colors are applied to fill the outlines before firing.",
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"citation": "Catalogue of the John L. Severance Collection: Bequest of John L. Severance, 1936. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1942.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. [61], Plate XXX, cat. no. 147; Mention: p. 69, cat. no. 147",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/SeveranceBequest/page/n73"
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"citation": "Hollis, Howard C. \u201cDepartment of Oriental Art: Chinese Ceramics and Jades.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 29, no. 9, 1942, pp. 150\u2013157.",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 869",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n154"
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"citation": "Mayuyama, Junkichi \u7e6d\u5c71\u9806\u5409. Chinese Ceramics in the West: Compendium of Chinese Ceramic Masterpieces in European and American Collection [\u6b27\u7c73\u8490\u8535\u4e2d\u56fd\u9676\u78c1\u56f3\u9304]. Tokyo: Mayuyama & Co, 1960.",
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. A History of Far Eastern Art. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1964.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 418, fig. no. 556",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 267",
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"citation": "Froncek, Thomas, and Hugh Honour. The Horizon Book of the Arts of China. New York: American Heritage Pub. Co, 1969.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 261",
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"citation": "Lion-Goldschmidt, Daisy. Ming Porcelain. London: Thames and Hudson, 1978.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: page facing 122, no. 97",
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"citation": "Moore, Janet Gaylord. The Eastern Gate: An Invitation to the Arts of China and Japan. Cleveland: Collins, 1979.",
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"citation": "Neils, Jenifer. The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982.",
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"citation": "Gilbert, Rita, and William McCarter. Living with Art. New York: Knopf, 1988.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: fig. 576, p. 468",
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"citation": "Brummett, Palmira Johnson. Civilization Past & Present. New York: Longman, 1999.",
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